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Burnsy2023

Burnsy2023

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My desktop died over the weekend and I need a replacement. I need a motherboard, processor and RAM bundle. It needs to be cheap and I'm looking at the MM, but since I need it pronto I might go new instead.

Budget is about £200 max.

I need a processor, Core2Duo best I can get really but it doesn't need to be uber fast as the hardest thing it ever runs is Visual studio with Supreme Commander occasionally thrown into the mix.

Motherboard - needs gigabit LAN, 4 RAM slots, preferably full ATX, and must have 2 x 16x PCI-E graphics slots sli preferred but not essential.

Ram - 4GB

So what do you guys suggest?
 
I'd personally go for the X48 gigabyte, far better board and should enable a far higher and more stable overclock than the Asus 750 sli. It's Just a shame you've said you need sli.

I'd have a look elsewhere perhaps, as overclockers choice of sli mainboards seems to be severely lacking, unless of course you going for core i7.

Bear in mind you'd get free shipping so spec below comes to just over 2 ton :)

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coupe69 said:
I'd personally go for the X48 gigabyte, far better board and should enable a far higher and more stable overclock than the Asus 750 sli. It's Just a shame you've said you need sli.

I'd have a look elsewhere perhaps, as overclockers choice of sli mainboards seems to be severely lacking, unless of course you going for core i7.
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I can't afford an i7. I don't need sli, I have two graphics cards but that's for the quad setup I have. SLi just means on the rare occasions I game I get slightly better performance. If the motherboard is that much better value for money I'll let the Sli slip :)
 
If you wanted the slightly better clocking P45 chipset then go for the Asus P5Q pro, cost's a little more but maybe worth it.

The main difference between the P45 and X48 chipset is the X48 enables you to run 2 video cards @ 16x as oppose to the P45 which switches to x8 with 2 cards installed.

Apart from that you may get a slightly better overclock with the P45, but unless you're going for an extreme oc then it's neither here nor there.

I have an Asus P5E X38 mainboard, the X38 being the predecessor to the X48, and it's quite happily running my Q6600 @ 3.6 Ghz 24/7 with minimal fuss and hardly any extra voltage.
 
icey_haj said:
Hasn't the Biostar P45 broke world records for overclocking?
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No idea, has it? you got a link? Not sure whether or not I could bring myself to buy a Biostar board or not, no matter how good it's meant to be.

On a side note, I built a system for one of my mates a few months back with the Asus P5Q-E, and managed a fairly healthy stable low voltage increase 4Ghz overclock with an E7400. So there is no denying the P45 boards are good clockers, it's whether you want slightly limited bandwidth on the pci-e.
 
My cpu alone is going to be £200 so i wont even try speccing lol.. Good luck tho dude and shame about the death.
 
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